president's war making power. and that check is there. if congress does not want to wage war against the taliban, against whomever, they can cut off funding. >> thank you. >> i am a student at rutgers university. john mentioned the large majority of americans support giving the president the authority to kill american citizens without charges or trial or to process. my question is, if you were identified as a threat by some nameless official in the administration, where you want to process? >> the issue is not -- [applause] john: i don't think there would name him. they might name me. >> the issue is whether we are in a war situation, whether we are operating under the war powers of the constitution or whether we are in a law

enforcement situation. the to have radically different approaches. we killed tens of thousands of american citizens, maybe hundreds of thousands with no due process in the civil war, and it was the right thing to do. [applause] john: on that note we're out of time. >> you want to discredit a movement, defend the confederacy. go ahead. john: ambassador bolton. no more time left. thank you for joining us and taking these difficult questions. students, thank you for coming here from around the world to learn about liberty. in a few weeks it will do another show with college students, but that's all for this show. see you next week. baiting. adam: that's all that time we have. melissa will be back monday. ♪ gerri: hello, everyone.

tonight on "the willis report" another unintended consequence of obamacare. now your health insurance may not cover your spouse and more. and starting to get hit by the sales tax. one economist says the designers of the law were all wrong. and, to top tier weekend. we have you covered with the important things like what the stars are going to wear and what is really in those slight bags. "the willis report" is on the case. ♪ gerri: all of that and more coming up later in the show. first, our top story. listen to this. honey, you are uninsured. yet another consequence of obamacare. you can add it to the list. more and more employers planning to drop health coverage for spouses. all in an effort to cut costs.

now, three years ago this was virtually nonexistent. last year that number jumped. 6 percent of large employers excluded spouses on health plans in 2012. experts say that number will continue to climb when the new health exchanges under obamacare are officially established next year. my first guest tonight says that will leave some of women with poor coverage or no coverage at all. joining me now, ceo of vital spring's technology. welcome back to the show. what is going on? how is it that these companies are going to exclude spouses? be they women are meant? >> you know, this is strike three. you cannot keep your plan, you can ftp doctor. you can't even keep your spouse. you know, the reality is is that it is a huge costs for employers in terms of covering dependents. the number is increasing in terms of the employers that are saying that they are not going to provide coverage and more,

and it is a real concern because it was not clearly defined within the affordable care act in terms of what was going to happen to spouses. gerri: it is my understanding that the law basically says you have to cover the case but says nothing about the spouse. companies that are squeezed for doe are saying, well, maybe we will just of opera -- stop offering it to spouses. >> it is a big deal. in the making a lot of the health care decisions in the family. more often women. gerri: women who cost more. let's be clear. >> that's exactly right. they cost more and end up getting more services. so we is a huge expense. and employers are basically giving them a few options. either you pay a premium if you could cover is through your place of work and you still opt to go with your spouse, or they're not going to cover them all. gerri: unbelievable. >> so when you come back to this whole notion of trying to

coordinate care in this whole notion of the patient center, well, out you create a patients entered on? gerri: i saw that in your notes, and i don't know what that means he's a obamacare more difficult. why? >> the whole premise behind obamacare is to coordinate care. they want to bring everybody together. how did you bring everybody together if the husband and wife could potentially not be seen this same doctors to back him is ludicrous. because you completely fragmented what is sacred which is a family unit. gerri: so now care is haphazard. notice more difficult to understand what is going on with each individual. you have the same doctor taking care of mom and pa kettle. they probably understand the dynamic in the family a whole lot better than if those two people go to two different doctors. >> absolutely. in primary care. take-out ob/gyn. but a lot of primary care is

going to be family centric. it's going to be coordinated. then of a sudden if you have to go fend for yourself, you know, it completely is -- you know, flies in the face of all notion of trying to improve efficiencies and bring down costs. and the other ironic thing here is that on the one hand, employers have to make a decision now in terms of whether there are going to provide benefits. if you qualify for the subsidies in the exchange, the formula calls for factoring in the compensation of not just the individual, but the household. gerri: all right. let's get back to what we're talking here. i get confused easily on this topic. obamacare is incredibly complicated. you know, here is what i don't care about what is going on in this country without care. we had a system in place that cost the federal government virtually nothing. that was sponsored by corporations, companies paying for insurance.

now we are dismantling that as fast as we can. this seems to me we're going to have nothing left. >> no. what you will have left is teeseven s.a. this time and time again. as single payer system where the government i going to take over a lot of the responsibility. gerri: what a nightmare. the people who cannot deliver mail on saturday. you think of want to have my health care in hand? not really. one woman's opinion. all right. thank you. thanks so much for coming in tonight. i was just shocked by the story and i knew you would make sense of it. thank you so much. >> thank you. gerri: now we want to know what you think. here's our question. should companies be forced to cover spouses? log onto gerriwillis.com and vote on the right inside of the street and i will share the results of the end of the show. well, obamacare is helping dig the u.s. deeper into debt. now our monstrous debt, 16 trillion, has people wondering if that is the real reason the u.s. keeps talking

tough but won't get tough with china. this is all over the numerous cyber attacks china is accused of waging against u.s. companies and government agencies. a fox news contributor. great to have you back on the show. it seems like the u.s. government wants to talk a tough game. there is absolutely nothing behind it. how can there be something behind ithen we hope china so much money? >> talk with nothing behind it is unfortunately typical of the obama administration. the point you're making about the debt is significant. i think it has been a problem for the united states in the wrong way. it comes up when people say whenever we have an issue with china basically they say, well, we can't do anything about that. then we don't do anything about it. you never challenge china you never forced them to use the debt as leverage, so they went for free. the conclusion in beijing is we might as well post a little bit harder. point number two, i think the

leverage that the debt of force china is greatly overstated because their economy is just as dependent on our's as ours is on them. gerri: we are there market for there goods. >> for one party or the other terrorist retaliation economically is a bag of the neighbor policy that i don't think -- gerri: there are still people that think the federal that is our biggest national security issues. tune out? >> i think it is a huge nestle security issue and would like nothing better than for china to say, we're not buying any more of your depth. might force the status of fiscal discipline. you cannot have a strong presence internationally, especially militarily without a strong economy. to the extent that the deficit each year adds to the debt and saps our domestic economy, thus preventing it from recovering, absolutely. gerri: you make a great point. we are looting this report which said that the chinese government is involved in acting and stealing ideas, stealing memos,

stealing e-mails, stealing a permission from our federal government, and they even name the unit of the chinese people's liberation army, unit 61398. unbelievable to me. i mean, if you had told me this story i would have said was that from john stuart? i cannot believe it is true. >> i am glad this of us but report is out. it is not the first time that we have concluded with the source of many of these attacks is. the pentagon as stuff for a long time is sicily every major corporation has been attacked by the people's liberation army. so what the chinese are doing is looking for their asymmetric point advantage. they cannot match as in conventional forces and nuclear forces are made it -- naval forces, so they're going after our vulnerability, reliance on information technology. they're way ahead of us in this area. gerri: the president put out an executive order. some vines are something silly. >> sillies exactly right. look. dealing with commercial espionage is apiece through

legal means, we have to understand that for china, russia, other countries, this is a form of warfare. i'm not suggesting that the government takeover information security, but i think there are areas where government private-sector cooperation here is important. how to create defenses and for the government, what kind of offense cyber capability we need to deter the chinese and others from doing this. gerri: there are all kinds of different levels. there is out endowed intellectual property theft. there is, you know, goofing off. kids here in the u.s. to do this kind of thing. then there is -- what is out and no warfare in your mind? >> we need conceptually a ladder of escalation like we have had for many years in the nuclear area. what has been us fits in there, and we need to know what are proper response. right now we are just wondering. we are taking steps. i think we can catch up. recently had the capability. we have not focused on this. gerri: al leader.

huckabee possibly be behind? >> because we have not seen the vulnerability that the chinese have seen. that is why i welcome this report. people need to understand this. i am confident we can developed defenses and an offensive capability, but we have to get on it. that is why would not cut our defense budget. one more new front that we have to be prepared for. gerri: all right. thank you for coming on. always great to see you. thank you so much. well, the u.s. state department is trying to play down the conflict between the ceo of tighten international, maurice taylor, and the french government, calling a private matter. we talked about this last night. the exchange erupted after the french government leaked a letter written by mr. taylor in which she describes workers at the french tire plant he was considering buying sleazy. in case you missed it yesterday, here is what he told me about the atmosphere of the french plant. >> you walk-in.

they get in now or for their lunch in their brakes. they work about three hours and then the other three, it's like a beauty shop. they're socializing. the reason being, they would like you -- the union thinks she should hire more people. i mean, that's the unions mentality. then what happens is appearances they're closing the plant. i have nothing. so they're not they will close it. the french minister, i will call up this tighten and have them come. i spent four years over there talking with these fools. and so he kept pounding. he thought that he would leave this out, that he could take the american, a foreigner, and my comments about the work, which was true, and twisted and get

some heat off. well, it is a fool. he knows i have a history that i don't walk away from any battle. gerri: unbelievable. grt interview. a lot more still to come this hour, including state governments starting to see some revenue from the online sales tax. not anything like they thought. and it is taxes like that that are behind consumers getting squeezed just as the cost of everything keeps going up. we will break it down next three. ♪

♪ gerri: well, look, i know we're supposed to be in a slow-growth economy. prices sure aren't. first, rising food prices hard to miss the grocery store. according to the government, ground beef is up 13 and a half

percent year-over-year. chicken of more than 12%. here is what really stings, stake up 9%. coffee up seven and a half%. that is to of my three food groups. the third, in the butter, up more than 11%. i am stepping a little bit, but it is deadly serious. consumer budgets stretched the limits. wages stagnant or down for those with jobs, and for those on fixed incomes, well, there is not a lot of room for a tebow in the prices skyrocketing. we asked viewers on twitter and facebook if you are facing higher prices and the answer was a resounding yes. we are having a hard time making it. i stretch every meal, not a scrap of food is wasted. my meal plan to rea out. solutions, eating a lot more fresh veggies from our garden, green bananas, all green such as th broccoli leaves. with not one not. and it is not just food. gas prices are up almost $0.50 a the last month alone. a strange and a quick jump that

is stumping economists. the average for unleaded gas is that the highest we have ever seen, but the highest we have ever had for late february. insiders say seasonal factors are work which is cold comfort for consumers. three states and the district of columbia have gas prices above $4 per gallon. $4. news of inflation and gas and food prices lies under the radar because the government does not counted in its consumer price index, which is the main measure of consumer level inflation. they say prices of gas and food are too volatile to be put in the index. isn't that the point, to measure price changes at every level? even so, the rise in consumer prices is coming in a bad time because after the first of the year every working american got a tax hike in the form of the payroll tax which was restored to pre-recession levels. this was a pay cut that most of us just were not anticipating. it is knocking two percentage points of take-home pay.

according to the "wall street journal" in taking a total of $110 billion of consumers which could presumably be spent in the economy. for a household with an income of $65,000 it is at $1,300 haircut. ouch. this week walmart announced the tax is hurting sales. walmart joins others, including burger king, kraft foods. they're all lowering forecasts for sales and adjusting sales to marketing strategies. they know that higher prices will cost sales. the question is just how much. walmart stocks stores with cheaper goods and smaller packag well burger king cuts the price of its whopper junior to a dollar 29. look, prices just keep going up and up and americans are adjusting spending and expectations. i will tell you, one potential silver lining here, the agriculture department says food inflation may ease later this year as the effects of last year's drought began to wear off. maybe this time the federal government will get its

inflation right. they don't actually have a good record on that score. by the way, had to share this. higher food prices equate to a more beans and rice at our house, but our budget for air fresheners to skyrocket. thank you for that. appreciated. a tough topic. coming up, it is not about who wins and loses but what they wear on oscar night. we will have a preview. next, those behind the new online sales tax promise big things for state government. my guest says they're wrong. ♪

gerri: at the same heading up an already hard at nation. how taxes could get slammed this

there was a study in 2009 and it was full of muzzle logical errors. they assumed 100% compliance and our wrath of other simple mistakes. we went to -- i did a study with bob isaacs' from the brookings institution and we showed that they were overestimating by about two-thirds. gerri: unbelievable. this is just crazy talk. this is what you get when you get a bunch of politicians talking about taxes. the overestimate. nine states that are collecting at is called the amazon sales tax. i say amazon sales tax, what it really is is a tax on all online sales. arizona, california,s you can see, kansas, new york, north dakota, on and on. now, senator dick durbin, democrat from illinois is pushing for a national on-line sales tax. what do you make of that? >> exactly. in the real battle here is not so much between online and offline as between big and small.

so if you're -- if you are a big company like walmart and target you are already paying taxes on all the state because u.s. stores and all the states. that is the rule. if you have a store in the state you're using, you have employees. gerri: that everybody does. >> if you don't then you are not using those resources and what his legislation would do would essentially overturn the 1992 supreme court decision that said, in order to pay taxes and estate you have to have some does go presence there. gerri: that is the big debate that went on between brick and mortar and online. so here is the estimate from the university of tennessee about how much a national amazon tax to collect. just under 11 and a half billion. can i believe that? >> know where close. we estimated about $4 billion per year. that is, by the way, a tiny fraction of state budgets or even state deficits. so it would not solve the problem. i think we are going to turn out even to be overoptimistic, if you will, about the amount of tax revenues. gerri: why is that? why?

>> well, several reasons. one is that small businesses are going to be exempted. and so at some level you are going to exempt small business, and the ones you don't exempt, lot of them, frankly, won't comply. the second reason, and the biggest one, they are ignoring the fact that most online sales are conducted by brick and mortar. so walmart, target, when you go online they're counting as an online sale. thirteen of the 15 largest online sellers are brick and mortar stores that are already paying taxes and all the states gerri: you know, the folks who would like to push this idea, there's a lot of sales moving, and that is not there today. there could be as much as 1,705,000,000,000. one year of sales migrating online. to you by that? >> i think we're going to continue to see the migration to online. we're also going to see if the continuing migration to a broken clay model. beyonce amazon, virtually -- the vast majority of online sales are happening with these brick

and click stores like walmart, target. they're already paying taxes, so even as that continues you're not going to see more tax revenues. they're already getting paid which is really the bait and switch thing. gerri: a lot. this is so funny because, you know, you cannot believe anything you read. tell me, what does all of this tell you, though, about taxation? taxation rates and our expectations of the kind of revenue that we can generate through higher taxes? >> i really think it is a parable for the larger issue. the real issue is pending. if you don't want to talk about spending and what you do is tell people all we have to do is tax the rich tax the oil companies are taxed them outf state small businesses that are selling on line into our state. tax somebody far away. and we can solve all of our problems without having to address the spending problem. i think that is what is going not the federal level and clearly, you know, that is the line and some of these states have bought and learn to the

regret. gerri: it just ain't true. people not dealing in reality. thank you for coming on. a great study. interesting stuff. >> thank you. gerri: coming up, our roster preview, a look at everything from the fashion to the free stuff. playing a precocious troublemaker on test for housewives. liz macdonald year-old is making waves on wall street as a day trader. joining me next with her story. ♪ this is america.

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de. ♪ >> from our fox business studios in new york, here again is gerri willis. gerri: a fox business alert for you. stocks bouncing back today after a today's slide despite the s&p 500 rising 13 points today. the index still lost 1/3 of a percent, its first weekly loss of the year. the dow recovering, up 120 points thanks to a huge gain by hewlett-packard which announced

positive earnings last night. up 12% or at least after bad news for the computer maker. that is important info. she is best known for her numerous tv and movie roles from desperate housewife to the daniel craig phone dream house. when she is not in front of a camera, our favorite hobby is trading stocks. no, by the way, she is 16 years old. joining me now. thank you for coming and the show. appreciate. >> yeah. thank you for having me. gerri: i have to go to the bottom line here right away. apparently you should be a hedge fund manager because last year you made 30% in stocks while the s&p only made 13 percent. how do that? >> i just traded, followed by instinct. i did a lot of short selling. i guess i really should be a hedge fund manager. i love short selling. i am predicting when it will go down. i follow a lot of good instinct,

found some good stocks and found a good mission and allied trades. gerri: my producer told me you start the morning by reading the papers and the business news and take off from there. >> yes. every what is going on and then adjusted the day as a tight ship. see if it is an update or down date and this flight, to start trading. gerri: i love it. this seems to me that you should be reading shakespeare in a closet somewhere. >> it is the weirdest thing. when i found out that i could make money with a few clicks of a button that was like, oh, my gosh. that is so easy. i have to do it. my parents are awesome. they expand the market to meet a very young age. i was like a years old when my mom started explaining to me. really basic investments. didn't she also explained to me

about day traders and how the market does not work card used to. that sounds -- gerri: some people can. some people can't. >> i heard it and that is new, something. i can do this. and so i started making lists of stocks before they actually let me day trade. it is a risky thing. i would make lists of stocks that i thought, you know, okay, this is where i would buy and and this is where would get out and show them how did. you know, over time they thought i could do it. gerri: i know our viewers at home are wondering how they can find out more about what she i trading. you have a column, website of fox on stocks which is great. tell us about that. what do you do on there? what do you tell people? what do you talk about?

>> a couple of different parts to the website. overall it is a block that i write about what is happening in the market day today, you know, what i see, what i am trading, was named doing. and their is a teaching portion. i have a series of videos. my first film was released a few weeks ago. gerri: i heard that was really good. >> a lot of people are saying they learned and it was very informative. we're just going to keep doing them. i want to do what my parents did, take the stock market and take all of the confusing terms, what the dow jones industrial average's, take ese terms and simplify it for people and try and feed in the information so they can decide, i want to invest more money, tried my money, just so they have the ability to go out and make their money grow. that is why want to. gerri: i have to tel you, you are swimming against the tide. lot of individual investors are scared of stocks. you are very brave, and we

appreciate your coming months. great conversation. i wish some -- how do we get to your blog? >> , you can follow me on twitter. i am tweeting what is going on in the market. you can learn anything you want to know. gerri: thank you so much. >> thankou. gerri: that is awesome. on to the stay in business. 1879. borrowing $300 opened up the first $0.5 store in new york. undercutting the price of other local merchants and sell discounted general merchandise at six -- fixed prices are five or $0.10. the company was the first to use display cases so customers can see what they wanted to buy without the help of the salesman . opened 8,000 stores around the world, selling everything from lipstick to diapers to milk.

it was worth $65 million at the time or 800 million inoday's money. pave the way for big companies like kmart, walmart, and target. on of the most successful american and international five and dime stores. the first woolworth's $0.5 store opened february 22nd, 133 years ago today. when we come back we will take off our oscar preview with a look at what to expect from the world of fashion. look at that. only a handful of stores will walk away with oscar gold but they will eat nearly $50,000 worth of free stuff. don't you want to look into the swag bad? that is what we will be doing. stay with us. ♪

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gerri: glamorous losers won't leave the theater empty-handed. they will still get the everyone wins that the oscars gift bag. our next guest has firsthand knowledge of this year's goodies, giving guru. the founder of distinctive assets, the company that produces the ouster gift back. all right. tell us what is in there. >> we have an amazing gift for all of this year's nominees, and it is worth about $50,000, including the most expensive item in the bag, an australian get away to the choice of two locations, either lizard island, one of the top and resorts in the world, or such a deluxe vacation package down under. and then on the flip side, the least expensive item from when next, a touch of a cleaner, $3.909. let's face it, you have to keep that glass foster case nice and sparkling clean. and then the sweetest gift in the bag, these are saki and used chocolates that are adorned with

an edible sugar diamond, absolutely gorgeous. the most unique item in the bag, i believe, these one-of-a-kind d illustrated tissues. each nominee is going to get accustomed pair only for them. none other. this is actually denzel washington's actual pair, the pair that will go to him on monday morning. and then i think the priceless gift, this is from heathrow by invitation. a vip service that allows you to experience heathrow airport as if you were flying private. you're whisked away to a private lounge with a handle your check-in and security. you don't have to go through the main terminal. it is such an amazing service. gerri: i am totally blown away. we are not even looking at everything that will be in the bags, just a handful of things. >> to complete pieces of luggage that we will be delivering a monday morning. gerri: i cannot get over it. what is interesting, this is not the most expensive one out

there. in fact, the prices have hit a 5-year low. >> we have a gift bag. the one we did five years ago was worth $,000. this year is a paltry 50. the reason, one gift in particular that fluctuated, an african safari, one year was worth $45,000. last year it was worth a little bit less. what we found is a lot of the folks just were not able to get to africa. quite a journey. the preparation. we did not include that this year. that is the reason for this pitiful give back. gerri: what kind of gift thing trend can i take away from this? is there something that i can learn from this? >> i think the take away is that the price tag does not matter. i think whether or not this is a $50,000 gets back or $100,000 gift bag, it is the thought that counts. we have put a lot of thought

into this gift bag in making sure there is something for everyone. when you look at the nature of the nominees, stuffer guys, stuffer gross domestic for younger children. i think you always want to be as powerful as possible and don't worry about the price tag. is about whether or not the person you're giving to will appreciate what you're doing for them. gerri: thank you for bringing that to us. maybe i will start taking acting lessons. okay. still to come, my "2 cents more" on something new new york city mayor bloomberg is doing right. and our oster coverage continues with the most important thing about sunday. the fashion. we will have a preview of what you can expect when stars like and has a we hit the red carpet. stay with us.

gerri:orget to take some the awards. what will the biggest stars where?

♪ gerri: in fashion tonight, the academy awards. who you are wearing will be the most asked question. we can give you a preview of what your favorite stars might be wearing. with more on this, style expert. thank you for coming in. great to have you here. this will be the most fun thing that we do all night. let's start with this basic trends. what are you seeing?

>> having spoken to all of my friends out in l.a. and a lot of the designers, it is all about drama. that is the big word of the season. embellishment a color. we have seen a lot of raids. emerald green, drama, drama, drama. red we have seen across the board. oxblood to foreign red. every major actress has already warning once leading up to it. gerri: let's drill down to the individual players. jennifer lawrence, nominated for best actress for silver lining playbook. what do you think she will do? >> she is a loyalist gunmen nephew she is going to continue to weird york. she has worn it every time leading up to the oscars, and other she is the face of the handbags, if i w a betting woman i would say that she will be wearing dior and will likely go with the navy colored. she is not a big risk taker. she would go with something a little bit classic.

gerri: here is my favorite. nominated for best actress for zero dart 30. >> i love her in every single movie she has ever been in. i have not love to this award season. she did this light blue. i thought her golden gloves, a little bell over the place. a big fan of alexander mcqueen. at issue will go with that caller. she is not that much to loyalists. we can see her in anything from oscar de la renta -- who knows. gerri: unpredictable. best actress for the impossible. >> she wore one of the huge trends that the gloves, long sleeves, and it was all about that back. this beautiful dress with this court is back line and when she turned she gave us attitude. oxblood. a huge trend. i think for the oscars we may see her in an interesting color

choice. she has not done too much color, so maybe she might be the one who does the emerald green. gerri: that is pretty. ann hathaway is the fashion a step. >> she is the one who takes the risk, except in color. she has been wearing white, black, white again. she has not done the drama in terms of color. what we will see her doing is architectural detailing. that is a huge request. i think she will be the one that wod give it to us via the details, not so much in public. gerri: what is interesting about her, she looks like a model. she can put anything on it would work for a. >> exactly. and she can have the architectural detail because she was the volume. like you said, she has that the t frame. not too much up or down stairs. chicken play around. if you start adding layers, it's not going to work for you. she is a beautiful column. she's a model.

gerri: here is another petite person. best supporting actress. >> she is the sweetheart of the bunch. she would be voted the best we tax. she wore a gorgeous strapless gown to the globes. at the she will stick with that. she does not take too many risks and she has had a few misses here and there. i think she's going to go there because there are soft and feminine, and that is her style. gerri: i don't know if you saw the fashion weekend right here in new york city. we saw a lot of different things . they got criticized for having too much black. of course in new york you can never weird just black. >> we were black all the time. the only time we rarely wear black is on air, but we do where a lot of black. that is our caller. all the stylists were sitting front and center clamoring for these dresses. i think we will see oscar de la renta, lots of different

grades, lots of abolishment. gerri: no black? >> there will always be black. black is black and it will always be there, but read the navy will be the big color embellishment, the architectural detail will be big this year. gerri: thank you for coming down and sitting in the chair. i really, really appreciate that. appreciate your time. well, as we wait to see what they wear, this weekend with up we would take a look at the best looks that have already raised the red carpet. a list compiled by our very own producers. number five, from 2007, up penelope cruz, this gorgeous fed ever such a gallon. a lot of drama, especially with that elaborate trend. number four, last year's show. jaws dropped when she stepped foot on the carpet in this stunning concord dress. number three, you can't talk oscar gals without talking

hallie barry in 2002. perfect. taking home the trophy. that was so dramatic. number two, julia roberts, the best actress was flawless in this simple yet elegant vintage valentino. and the number one, nicole kidman, another stunner, also in 2007. head spinning as she swept down the red carpet in this starlit -- i don't even know how to say that. >> valencia get. gerri: thank you. nothing short of fabulous. >> i would have added hillary swink. gerri: thank you for that. we will be right back with my "2 cents more" in the answer to our question of the day, should companies be forced to cover spouses.

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♪ music kids will spend 22 minutes watching us, the super duper party troopers, sing about ants in their pants. brushing for twoinutes now, can save your child from severe tooth pain later. two minutes twice a day. they have the time.